The Palestinian Guy Fawkes

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/11/the-palestinian-guy-fawkes/264529/ Today is Guy Fawkes Day, which commemorates the plot by a group of English Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament and King James I along with it. The plot was disrupted on...

STUDY: WILL US, CANADIAN & EU TRAINED PALESTINIAN FORCES TURN ON ISRAEL?

Publication Made Possible by Research Grant From “The Middle East Forum” Executive Summary On the surface, the Palestinian Authority has scored a major achievement over the last five years with the development of its own security...

Obama Middle East Policy: Wrong Team, Wrong Ideas

http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/06/obama-middle-east-policy-wrong-team-wrong-ideas/ In the Middle East, to paraphrase President Barack Obama’s mentor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the dodo birds are coming home to roost. At this moment, the administration’s policy team consists of CIA director John Brennan,...

Institute for Contemporary Affairs, founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation

http://jcpa.org/article/changing-historical-narrative-saeb-erekats-new-spin/ Vol. 14, No. 8 March 23, 2014 Palestinian leaders are manipulating the history of geographic Palestine/Land of Israel. They have manufactured a curious claim, expressed recently by Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, that they...

Nakba: The Arab Self-Inflicted Catastrophe

As the British began to dismantle their Mandate and leave western Palestine, Israel’s War of Independence began (November 30, 1947 – May 14, 1948). During the war, Palestinian Arabs became belligerents in the...

Hamas. Abu Mazen and the Cease Fire

The Hamas-Israeli ceasefire agreement in Gaza (tahdi'a; lit. “calmingâ€Â), together with the decision by Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) to renew the “national dialogueâ€Â with Hamas, inaugurated a new and promising phase...

PA to pay Hamas employees in Gaza

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=64772   BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The Palestinian Authority will pay Hamas civil servants in Gaza on Wednesday, ending a months-long salary crisis following the announcement of a unity government. Senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouq said an...

Out of Shadows, Agency Is Directly Involved in Israeli-Palestinian Security Talks

The CIA has emerged from the shadows of diplomacy to play a unique, highly visible role in the Middle East peace process, mediating disputes between Israeli and Palestinian security forces and participating in negotiations...

Softball Reporting:. Examining A NEWS INTERVIEW WITH FAYAD

On January 18, 2013, The Jerusalem Post magazine featured a parody of an interview with the non elected Palestinian Arab Authority Prime Minister Fayad, http://themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=36880 characterized by softball questions that provided Fayad with an opportunity...

MK Dr. Steinitz Demands: Disarm the PA – Rejects Call for Ceasefire

On Tuesday, May 8th, MK Dr Yuval Steinitz addressed a packed audience at the Israel Center in Jerusalem, at a news forum hosted by the Israel Resource News Agency. Steinitz, a former Peace Now leader...